A transcript of the most recent edition — “Episode #13: Addressing criticism of 37signals (Part 1 of 2)” — of the 37signals Podcast is now available.

This week we’ll be conducting interviews to be used in future podcasts with the design team and the support team here at 37signals. What question(s) would you like to hear them answer? Leave it in the comments (anonymous questions won’t get answered btw).

Tony

on 04 May 10

I don’t know why it bothers me so much, but the two different shades of text in the transcript are really annoying. Maybe it’s because they’re so similar? How about adding a quick blockquote p { #454545 }?

Aside from that, good stuff. :)

Shubham

on 04 May 10

My question is for the Design team. How important is a designer to the success of a product? Do you think a developer could be a good designer or vice versa?

For the design team – It seems your designs have always been quite minimalist and you avoid framing in the sites with solid borders and everything is sort of laid out in blocks going down the page. Do you feel that the simpler you make the designs for the various product sites, the better they convert?

Colin

on 04 May 10

I have 3 questions.

- have you ever felt “limited” by the possibility of HTML (compared to native app), how do you approach that: simplify until it reaches something “easy” to do with actual technology or trying to tweak and distort and use coders genius to make great things ?

- are you designers or designer / htmlcsscoders. When does the actual “coding” of a layout starts to emerge : really early or try to avoid this in the first place to be focused on pure ideas.

- HTML 5 seems promising, what will be the “trigger” for 37signals to start coding site using the new functionalities it provides? By the way, do you think html5 will make YOUR life at 37signals easier?

Hendrik

How do you fit many informations into one little spot? In my software I have only a quarter of the screen for a list with about 10 columns with information absolutely needed to work with.
Whats your preference tooltips or scrollbars?
(I know less information needed would be the best)

PS Podcasts are great while riding your bike to work! thanks for that.

Christian

on 08 May 10

Question for the design team: How do you maintain visual and conceptual consistency across your products? Do you have some kind of widget set, color pallets, and text styles that constitute your in-house style guide?

Scott

on 10 May 10

Do you ever let your programmers talk ? Never hear from them on the podcast or blog… Hmm.

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